Tex Texin scripsit:
> At the time (in the discussion), I don't think we had many examples of
> what the uses would be, and it wan't clear that many were needed, since
> the functionality could be arrived at with higher level protocols.
One application that has always seemed obvious to me is regular expressions:
a compiled regular expression can be represented by a Unicode string,
with non-characters representing things like "any character", "zero or more",
"one or more", "beginning of string", "end of string", etc. etc.
-- John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com> http://www.ccil.org/~cowan "One time I called in to the central system and started working on a big thick 'sed' and 'awk' heavy duty data bashing script. One of the geologists came by, looked over my shoulder and said 'Oh, that happens to me too. Try hanging up and phoning in again.'" --Beverly Erlebacher
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